Fumihito Gotoh

Dr Fumihito (Fumi) Gotoh specialises in Japanese and East Asian Politics and International Political Economy. He focuses on comparative capitalisms (particularly between Anglo-American countries, Japan, China and South Korea), globalization and resistance, politics of finance and technology, credit markets and credit rating agencies.

Fumi joined the School of East Asian Studies in 2021 after working as a teaching and research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick (2017-21). He completed his PhD in Politics and International Studies at Warwick in 2018. His thesis explored the conflict between Japanese society’s anti-free market norms and American-led liberal global norms (promoting capital and labour mobility) from a Neo-Gramscian perspective.

His articles have appeared in Review of International Political Economy (RIPE), The Pacific Review, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Contemporary Politics. His monograph, Japanese Resistance to American Financial Hegemony: Global Versus Domestic Social Norms, was published by Routledge (RIPE series in Global Political Economy) in 2019. His co-edited volume, The Future of Multilateralism and Globalization in the Age of the US-China Rivalry, was also published by Routledge in 2023.

Before starting his doctoral research, Fumi conducted twenty years of corporate credit analysis and investment strategy formulation at the Industrial Bank of Japan, Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America Securities) and UBS Investment Bank. He was ranked #1 in 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 on Nikkei Credit Analyst Rankings.